Quotes About Purpose

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art. 

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Having essential goals in mind makes daily decisions clearer.

successful people regularly focus on the core purpose of their profession or life. True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics. Trumpeting

Sadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favor is really not worthy of being sought.

Sadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favor is really not worthy of being sought. So before you succumb to the temptation to immediately spring to work on the answer, always stop and first ask, "What's the real question here?" Often the question that seems obvious may not be the question that leads to effective action.

Read to live, not live to read

Only when the sap is dried up, only when age comes on, does the sun shine in vain for man and for the tree.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

I am only one, butt still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

The sole purpose of a child's middle name, is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

Work liberates.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.